Best Practices


Although the cost of care can have severe effects on patients with cancer and their families, oncologists rarely address financial toxicity, according to Hanna K. Sanoff, MD, MPH, Medical Director, University of North Carolina (UNC) NC Cancer Hospital Clinics. Read More ›

Discussing Costs with Your Patient Can Reduce Financial Toxicity
“Treating financial toxicity at the patient level is similar to treating a symptom like fatigue,” said Yousuf Zafar. Read More ›

The Patient Voice Is Key to Value-Based Care
There are many ways to collect patient-reported information, such as the routine use of patient-reported outcomes in patient care, which provides value by alerting clinicians to symptoms and by improving communications, symptom control, and quality of life. Read More ›

Is Your Healthcare Organization Addressing Nurse Fatigue?

The American Academy of Nursing (AAN) released its position statement in recognition that safe nursing practice requires adequate, high-quality sleep to allow them to contribute to patient care safely.

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Trends in the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) show increasing use of advanced functionality. More providers are now using more advanced EHRs that include electronic clinical information and computerized entry of provider orders, as well as results management and decision support. Read More ›

A pilot project to incorporate nurse navigation for all new patients diagnosed with a hematologic or gynecologic malignancy has met with success, improving access to care for patients at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ), as well as increasing patient and provider satisfaction. Read More ›

A growing number of patients treated at the infusion center, coupled with a fixed number of infusion chairs, helped to create a logjam at the National Cancer Institute–designated New York University Langone Medical Center. Read More ›

A recent project to implement a chemotherapy discharge class on a mixed medical oncology unit had encouraging results, according to Julianne Brogren, MS, RN, CNL, OCN, Clinical Nurse Leader, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston. Read More ›

Several treatment- and disease-specific factors are associated with near miss or safety incidents (NMSIs) among patients treated with radiotherapy. Read More ›

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